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Saturday, August 11, 2012

A spectre of corruption is haunting the global campaign toward higher
education internationalisation. An overseas degree is increasingly
valuable, so it is not surprising that commercial ventures have found
opportunities on the internationalisation landscape. New private actors
have entered the sector, with the sole goal of making money. Some of
them are less than honourable. Some universities look at
internationalisation as a contribution to the financial “bottom line,”
in an era of financial cutbacks. The rapidly expanding private higher
education sector globally is largely for-profit. In a few cases, such as
Australia and increasingly the United Kingdom, national policies
concerning higher education internationalisation tilt toward earning
income for the system.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

The Syrian Army announced that it has recently apprehended a
Turkish general who commanded the terrorists trying to seize control of
Aleppo.

According to an informed source in Syria, the Turkish general was
arrested during the Syrian Army’s clashes with the terrorists in Aleppo.
News reports said that the Turkish general has been taken to Damascus for further interrogations.
Earlier, Turkish media also reported that Syria has detained 40
Turkish military officers in different parts of the country, and said
that efforts to release them have failed.

Team Anna members met here on Sunday for the first time
after they ended their indefinite fast and discussed strategy for
evolving a political alternative in line with their plans to take a
plunge in electoral politics.

Anna Hazare and his
close aides deliberated on a variety of issues, including the name of
the organisation, and other formalities like the Constitution of the
party, sources said.

Psephologist Yogendra Yadav, who was a regular face at the Jantar
Mantar during the protest arguing that the movement should take a
political turn, was the new participant in the discussions. There was no
official word on the meeting.

Washington - Two months after a free-trade agreement
between the United States and Colombia went into effect, workers and
activists are warning that US-stipulated labour reforms have not been
fully implemented and have yet to result in promised improvements in the
lives of workers.
"We ask President (Barack) Obama to push for more guarantees for
Colombian workers," Miguel Conde, with Sintrainagro, a union
representing workers on palm-oil plantations, said here on Tuesday. "In
Colombia, it is easier to form an armed group than a trade union…
because we still have no guarantees from the government."